AI & learning
Use AI to practise your thinking.
Build a study interaction around your attempt, useful feedback and a source check.
THE SHORT ANSWER
Choose a learning goal, make your own attempt, and ask for one question or hint at a time. Verify the explanation against your course. Check the rules for your specific assignment before using an AI tool.
- 01Your goalWhat do you want to learn?
- 02Your attemptTry before asking.
- 03One hintAsk, then verify in the course.
- 04Self-testA new example without AI.
A practical method
Give the session a finish line
Decide what you want to do afterwards: explain a term, compare two ideas or solve a particular kind of exercise. Choose a small goal. Our prompt builder turns that goal into a structured request without sending anything to an AI provider.
Bring your own attempt
Write a short answer first. Ask the tool to identify one unclear step and give a hint. Keep a visible record of what you changed. This makes the interaction easier to evaluate than a request for a finished answer.
Check the output
Compare factual claims and methods with course material. Open and verify any suggested reference before relying on it. If the tool claims something is absent from your notes, check that claim too. Confident wording is not evidence.
Keep the final understanding yours
Close the AI conversation and solve a new example or explain the idea aloud. If you cannot do that, record the remaining question for your lecturer or study group. Follow your institution’s rules on permitted use and disclosure.
A worked example
An original example prompt: ‘I am practising equilibrium in an introductory economics course. Ask me one question at a time. Wait for my answer. If I make a mistake, give a hint before explaining it. Mark claims that I need to verify in my course notes.’ Adapt the subject and check that this use is allowed.
A common pitfall
Do not upload confidential material, personal information about classmates or restricted assessment content. A tool may invent explanations or references, and a fluent answer is not proof that it is correct.
Put it into practice
Build a practice prompt, copy it to an approved tool, and end the session with your own self-test.
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